Marian Pilot

A writer, journalist, screenplay writer. He has published in Wiadomości Filmowe, Na Przełaj (the head of the cultural department), Tygodnik Kulturalny (the head of the prose department). In the 1960s–1980s, he published: Panny szczerbate (1962), Opowiadania, Opowieści świętojańskie (1966), Majdan (1969), Pantałyk (1970), Zakaz zwałki (1974), Karzeł pierwszy, król tutejszy; Tam, gdzie much nie ma... (1976), Jednorożec (1978), Wykidajło (1980), Ciżba: opowiadania i opowieści (1980), W słońcu, w deszczu (1981), Matecznik (1988), Sień (1989), Bitnik Gogolewski (1989). Grotesque caricatured short stories and novels by Marian Pilot have been associated with the peasant’s trend in Polish prose. In the 1990s, Marian Pilot kept his silence. At the start of the new century, he made his comeback with such books as: Na odchodnym: opowieści i opowiadania (2002), Cierpki, oboki, nice: bardzo małe opo (2006), Gody (2009), Pióropusz (2010), Pantałyk (2012). Apart from the volumes of prose, he has also published Ssapy, szkudły, świętojanki: słownik dawnej gwary Siedlikowa (2011). The increase in the interest on the part of critics and readers alike is connected with the returning debate over the peasant components of Polish culture which for years have been pushed to the fringes. For his novel Pióropusz, Pilot received the Nike Literary Award 2011. He is also the author of the screenplays for such films as W słońcu i w deszczu (1979), Pan na żuławach (1984), Historia o proroku Eliaszu z Wierszalina (1997) and of dialogues for Ucieczka z miejsc ukochanych (1987).
The meeting with the participation of writer took place on 27th October. 2012 Zdjęcie: Tomasz Paczostel

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